Senior Robotics Research Scientist – Foundation Models

Amazon; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon’s Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR) team is seeking a Member of Technical Staff to drive foundational research and build intelligent robotic systems from the ground up. You’ll publish and deploy innovations into production at Amazon scale, focusing on hardware-aware foundation models and real-world robot deployment.

Join world‑class researchers to push the boundaries of robotics, balancing theoretical insights with hands-on hardware work, scale experiments across high‑DoF platforms, and

Qualifications

• PhD, or Master’s degree in CS, CE, ML or related field with 4+ years of experience.
• Experience programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl.
• Experience with hardware design, low‑level control, state estimation, system identification, or complex electrical systems.
• Experience in patents or publications at top-tier conferences or journals.
• Experience building ML models or algorithms for applied use in robotics.

Responsibilities

• Drive independent research across the full robotics stack, including locomotion, manipulation, control, and foundation models for perception and manipulation.
• Lead full-stack robotics projects from conception to hardware deployment with system-wide integration.
• Develop and optimize control algorithms and sensing pipelines for physical robotic hardware.
• Collaborate with hardware, mechanical, and electrical engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of learned models across the stack.
• Contribute to technical strategy and hardware-aware robotics challenges, including hardware-in-the-loop validation.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Java

Perl

State estimation

System identification

Reinforcement learning

Robotics

Education

PhD or Master’s in CS/CE/ML or related field

Tools

PyTorch/JAX

Job description

Amazon’s Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR) team is seeking a Member of Technical Staff to drive foundational research and build intelligent robotic systems from the ground up. You’ll publish and deploy innovations into production at Amazon scale, focusing on hardware-aware foundation models and real-world robot deployment.

Join world‑class researchers to push the boundaries of robotics, balancing theoretical insights with hands-on hardware work, scale experiments across high‑DoF platforms, and